Written By Aleksei
Jan. 26, 2018, 12:45 p.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Written By Margerie
Jan. 26, 2018, 12:42 p.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Thena
If you wish to be a flower, they grow everywhere. I rather admire the tenacious ones that find ways to flourish unexpectedly.
Written By Edward
Jan. 26, 2018, 12:35 p.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Abbas
But let me be frankly clear, because I am one of the few best suited to speak on this:
If Prince Abbas did not do what he did and save the strength of his forces; we would have been fighting the Silent Army inside Arx instead of outside of it.
That is the flip of the coin of burden Abbas carries.
Written By Astraea
Jan. 26, 2018, 12:34 p.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Written By Thena
Jan. 26, 2018, 12:32 p.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Margerie
Fortunately for me, being a commoner, I will never be mistaken for a flower.
Written By Dafne
Jan. 26, 2018, 12:30 p.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Written By Harald
Jan. 26, 2018, 12:29 p.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Written By Orazio
Jan. 26, 2018, 12:22 p.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Seeing nobility of the Compact defend the murder of children and the use of disease as a weapon of...not even of /war/, because war implies a conflict between warriors, on a field of battle. The use of disease as a weapon of /slaughter/. The imprisoning of those captured in war, holding them in cages riddled with human filth and disease, torturing them until you were sure that they were infected with a deadly malaise, and then sending them home to their children, their spouses, their parents, making them an instrument of the murder you were too dishonorable, cowardly, and craven to commit.
To the tune of tens of thousands dead, most by disease and torment.
Understand this: When you excuse such acts, then you normalize them. And aside from the sheer horror of that on an theological and moral level - the next time you go to war with YOUR enemies, it may be your children whose face and limbs swell and rot, your children's screaming that you hear as you try desperately to calm them, to prepare them for an agonizing death you know that they cannot possibly understand. Because you have said to your vassals, your allies, and your enemies that this is an acceptable tactic of war. That this a "hard choice" that a courageous man makes.
Allow me to say, as Legate of Concepts, as the Shield of the Faith, and as the Voice of the Most Holy: There is nothing honorable or courageous in what Abbas Thrax has done, on any of the (several) occasions that he has committed such acts. The actions of Abbas Thrax were not necessary to "save the Isles", and if they were? Then the Isles were not worth saving. When you defend those actions, you take dishonor on yourself, and it is a stain which will prove most difficult to remove.
And the Faith will remember who has championed such dark causes, and embraced such dishonorable acts.
Written By Estaban
Jan. 26, 2018, 12:19 p.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
My good friend Prince Aiden surprised me with a night out at the Inn we were joined by Master Waldemai and Sparte!
Drinks were had and many songs song, people do not let Sparte trick you, he has a very good voice and a very good talent for singing Sea Shanties.
I drank to my soon to be wife.
I drank to my friends old and new.
I drank to those present.
I drank to those who have passed.
Those who have passed......
My Friend Killian.
My Friend Fergus.
How you both have inspired me, both why you were with us and even more now that you have passed back to the wheel.
I drank to you both and will do so again on my wedding day.
Written By Karadoc
Jan. 26, 2018, 12:15 p.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Audric
Written By Valery
Jan. 26, 2018, noon(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Joscelin
Written By Tristan
Jan. 26, 2018, 11:54 a.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Sometimes monsters creep like oozing scum across the seas. Sometimes they have wings and spit acid. Sometimes they have human faces and sneak into the city to murder.
Sometimes they are human, and smile at you across a table, and try to justify their monstrosity. Sometimes you think because you know them and whatever they did seems so far away and distant that they can't possibly be monsters.
Knowing something is unspeakably terrible and doing it anyway does not make you a martyr or a hero. It makes you a monster.
Slaughtering people on the off chance they might have spoken with those allied with your enemies is not the way to 'save' anything, especially your soul.
I am so, so tired of people excusing the murder of children because the murderer was a noble they know and the murdered Abandoned no one here knew.
Written By Margerie
Jan. 26, 2018, 11:49 a.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Harlan
If we are going back to the message I sent after writing in this journal, and its response, let us provide context for our future readers.
I advised that the good Duke might be receiving some dead or dying flowers in the days to come and, yes, made my own impolite comment about feet being in the vicinity of mouths. However, I was making the suggestion that it might rather repair some of the damage of these comments if he donate a certain amount of silver to charity for each bunch of flowers received. I still find that a most worthy idea, especially with so many organizations in need as we focus on the urgency of the battles to come. And should he choose to embrace that idea in the spirit of making this a moment of light, I will further encourage all of you to send many, many wilting flowers to him that might otherwise go to waste. All the better if he employs those who might find purpose in them as perfumes (Those pretty scents for us to wear), as dyes (for that pretty clothing for us to wear), for medicines (No snippy comment here, I actually rather encourage that last).
You seem to be doubling down, m'lord. What you suggest is that you do recognize us as 'useful' and that I am leaping to a conclusion based on your earlier writings. So I have further conclusions to draw about the skill of those writings now, but I will leave that to the aforementioned future readers to infer on their own.
Written By Cristoph
Jan. 26, 2018, 11:45 a.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Written By Mydas
Jan. 26, 2018, 11:37 a.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Mae
Written By Mae
Jan. 26, 2018, 11:31 a.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Harlan
But then you doubled down. Women are pretty, and beautiful, but also useful objects for men to take as they need. I think what Marquis Mydas was suggesting was that you should refer to women as people, not objects.
This is disgusting, my lord. I'm hoping that wherever Aislin is, she doesn't get sent a copy of this journal. I also hope that should you find any "flowers" to be "plucked" for their "usefulness", someone shows them these postings before they agree to marrying you.
Written By Belladonna
Jan. 26, 2018, 11:16 a.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Abbas
Respect his choices, if you respect the man. Defending him and finding yourself facing consequences for such is precisely the opposite of appropriate.
Written By Jael
Jan. 26, 2018, 11:12 a.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Harlan
Written By Cassima
Jan. 26, 2018, 11:03 a.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Tila
Written By Cassima
Jan. 26, 2018, 11:03 a.m.(1/15/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Cirroch
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